About Paul ten Have (1937)
last revised: 7 June 2013
Position
On December 1st, 2002, I retired as a part-time Associate Professor in
the Department of Sociology and Antropology, Faculty of Social and
Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam. I was also a staff
member of the Dutch Graduate School in Science & Technology Studies:
Science,
Technology and Modern Culture.
Interests
My research interests can be indicated by the concepts of ethnomethodology,
conversation analysis, medical interaction, technology and research practices.
I have a long-standing interest in qualitative research methods, as evident
in most of my teaching, a number of publications, and some of my research.
My general orientation has been shaped mostly by ethnomethodology, which
I most often apply in the form of Conversation Analysis. Since the late
1970's, I have done research on doctor-patient interaction in the context
of the general practice consultation, i.e. in general medicine. Or, to
say it a bit differently, I have studied the local order of the consultation
as a collaborative achievement of the parties concerned. For the last 15
years or so, I have also developed an interest in the study of local practices
involving various kinds of technology, such as ICT as in word processing
or web page design. For these studies I have mostly used a variety of 'reflexive
methods', i.e. my personal experiences with such technologies in doing
various kinds of tasks. Recently, I have turned my ethnomethodological
eye (and ear) to one of my leisure persuits, burding (seen my last publication
in my selective bibliography).
Publications
Bibliography
A selective bibliography of my publications in English and German is available.
Books
I have written two books in Dutch, on field research (1977) and GP consultations
(1987) respectively, and two in English, Doing Conversation Analysis:
A Practical Guide (SAGE Publications, 1999; Second
edition, 2007) and Understanding
qualitative research and ethnomethodology (SAGE Publications, 2004).
I have also co-edited two collections of papers in Dutch, one on medical
technology (1994) and one on qualitative medical sociology (1997), and
two in English. The first was a book edited with George Psathas: Situated
Order: Studies in the social organization of talk and embodied activities.
This is a collection of papers, originally presented at the conference
on "Current Work in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis" which I
co-organized at the University of Amsterdam in 1991. It is, of course,
strongly recommended. The second was a special issue of Discourse
Studies (vol. 6, issue 1; February 2004) on the theme of 'scripted
practices', in honour of the late Hanneke Houtkoop-Steenstra.
Papers-on-Line
The following papers are available on line:
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The consultation as a genre (1989)
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Methodological Issues in Conversation Analysis.(1990)
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Vorm en inhoud van spreekuurgesprekken [Form and
content in consultations] in Dutch (1991)
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User routines for computer assisted conversation analysis (1991) text
as PDF
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Talk and institution: a reconsideration of the ‘asymmetry’ of doctorpatient
interaction (1991) revised text as PDF
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Disposal negotiations in general practice consultations (1995) text
as PDF
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Het hangt er maar van af ... :Datakwaliteit
in kwalitatief onderzoek. [It just depends... data quality in qualitative
research]. in Dutch (1996)
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A doctor’s body work: an exploratory exercise. text
as PDF
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Een basisprocedure voor conversatie-analytisch onderzoek
[A basic procedure for conversation-analytic research], in Dutch
(1997).
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In the presence of data: Conversation-analysis
as 'empirical philosophy' (1997) Paper read at the conference on 'Ethnomethodology,
an improbable sociology?', Cerisy-la-Salles, France, June 1997
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Formatting the consultation: Communication formats
and constituted identities. (revised, 1998)
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Text > Talk > Code: Pragmatic aspects of the production
of survey interview data, prepared for the 6th International Pragmatics
Conference, Reims, France, 19-24 July 1998
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"The first call is in, hallo, it's Germaine": Negotiating
frames in radio counselling: opening sequences Paper for the conference
on 'Broadcast Conversations: Interaction in the Media', Roskilde University,
Denmark, March 25. - 26. 1999
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Structuring writing for reading: hypertext and the reading
body. (revised, 1999) which studies some aspects of reading as structured
by writing, using my experiences with HTML, HyperText Markup
Language, to explicate these complex relationships in practice.
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Membership categorization, sequencing, and inference:
working towards 'the anchor point', paper for the panel 'Cognition-in-Action:
Ethnomethodology', 7th International Pragmatics Conference, International
Pragmatics Association (IPrA), Budapest, Hungary, 9-14 July 2000
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'Computer-Mediated
Chat: Ways of Finding Chat Partners', M/C - A Journal of Media and
Culture 4(3) August 2000
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Conceptualization in ‘Grounded Theory’ Analysis: Some Critical Observations,
Paper read at the Fifth International Conference on Social Science Methodology,
of the Research Committee on Logic and Methodology (RC33) of the International
Sociological Association (ISA), session on ‘Qualitative Analysis in Grounded
Theory’, organized by Hennie Boeije, Cologne, October 3 - 6, 2000 [revised
text as PDF]
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Revealing Orders: Ideas and Evidence in the Writing
of Ethnographic Reports, Paper read at the IIEMCA conference on 'Orders
of Ordinary Action,' 9-11 July, 2001, Manchester, U.K.
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'Seconds to troubles talk: the case of radio counselling',
Paper read at the "Language and Therapeutic Interaction: International
Conference in Discourse Analysis and Conversation Analysis", Brunel University,
Uxbridge 30-31 August 2001
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Sequential structures in doctor-patient interaction:
ethnomethodology and history. Paper read at the conference ‘Structure
and Emergence of professionalized “Praxis”’, J. W. Goethe-Universität,
Frankfurt, Germany, September 26 – 28, 2001
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‘The
Notion of Member is the Heart of the Matter: On the Role of Membership
Knowledge in Ethnomethodological Inquiry’ [53 paragraphs]. Forum
Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research [On-line
Journal], 3(3), (2002, September)
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‘Reflections on transcription’ (2002) cahiers de praxématique
39: 21-43 -- text available as PDF
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'Producing Recognizable Spring Soundscapes',
paper originally written for a presentation at the 2003 IIEMCA Conference
on Producing Local Order, Manchester, U.K. 2-4 July, 2003
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‘On the interactive constitution of medical encounters’; Text of a paper
published in a Special issue of the Revue Française de Linguistique
Appliquée, edited by Lorenza Mondada: “Interactions en
situations d’apprentissage, de soin et de travail: de l’analyse détaillée
aux retombées pratiques ([Interactions in education, health, and
work settings. From detailed analysis to practical issues)], available
as PDF
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Talk for Theme Day 'The Life of Texts in Organizations', University of
Southern Denmark, 22 May 2009: "Texts at work:
Working with texts" PDF
You comments on any of these papers are expressly invited!
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